Final by default?

[Joseph Cassman]

On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 03:15:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
>> I.e. the % of users who
>> wouldn't mind breaking changes is higher on the forum?
>
> I believe so, and I have many examples. Most people who don't 
> hang out in the forum just want to get work done without 
> minding every single language advocacy subtlety, and breakages 
> prevent them from getting work done.
>
>
> Andrei

Yeah this pretty much defines me. I got other stuff to deal with 
but am very interested in using D. Just can't devote much time to 
make my voice heard that loudly on the forums.

 From my point of view, D2 already has such a good set of features 
that it is sufficiently differentiated from the competition to 
make it a compelling product as-is. If the implementation could 
be polished to just work, that would help it to gain a reputation 
of stability. That in turn would allow D to gain traction in 
industry, publish a specification, build a third-party tooling 
and library ecosystem, etc.

I applaud the restraint Walter and Andrei are showing in keeping 
the implementation on track. I believe this is a win in the long 
run. New features like final-by-default are good to consider. And 
for that feature in particular, I think the reasoning backing it 
up is compelling. But I say tabling it for consideration until 
D-next is the way to go to win the race, rather than just the 
sprint.

Joseph